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the city contrasts with his depiction of the boys at play, trying gamely to be frolicsome and experience the joy of childhood agai...

to save her family. Perhaps she can convince him not to kill anyone, but instead, she only pleads for her own life without much re...

at the same time he is not successful, such as the relationship with his grandfather and a wife. In terms of three specific events...

workings of identity, however, there are grand variances that separate one person from the next when it gets past a superficial le...

and pure joy was leaping in her being and she was perhaps experiencing a very subtle and simple joy at life itself, something that...

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

controlling people, usually against their will and in such a way that escape is impossible without tragedy. We see this, for ...

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

to salvage their relationship. When a scratch on his leg goes untreated with iodine, it becomes gangrenous, and as he lay dying, ...

inner most desire is that God would "notice and...talk to him also" as he did to men in the Old Testament (55). Bentley comes to s...

stories often reflect the ideals, and the alternative ideals, of this time. While he has written numerous stories this particular ...

the glory when the farming goes well. Of course, this bitterness is something felt by most housewives of an earlier generation and...

telephone wire holding her to her duty like a leash. The next time she must telephone, or wait to be telephoned, nailed her to her...

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

the skill they once had, but rather their passion for that subject matter. For example, an opera singer such as Leoni may well hav...

in this short story depict them simply in neutral roles. Some of the female depictions in this story, however, at least hint at t...

it is nurtured and kept in the right place, it is golden. When it is kept in the shadows, it turns brown and falls to the ground. ...

he would not be getting any scholarships for furthering his education, he "joined the Indian Imperial Police Burma" (George Orwell...

makes it clear that the house is not a privilege, as a necessity. This is because if Remire lived in the camp, the other prisoners...

right in their eyes for one who has died. They paint his face, sprinkle corn meal and pollen, and thus give him a very fitting wra...

"the trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled"(OConnor). This would seem to symbolize the wildern...

such as "bleak walls" and minute fungi overspread on the whole exterior" to describe the place of which he speaks. There is defin...

very fast and uncontrolled manner - all signs of the narrators questionable mental state. The narrators obsession with th...

and we do see a wonderful complexity that is both subtle and descriptive. We see this in the opening sentence, which is seems to b...

in luck. The boy associates luck with money because his house seems to speak constantly of needing more money. He tells his mother...

became increasingly diffident towards him" (Ramirez 79). Yet, when the manager asked the narrator what Francoise was saying, he wo...

him and who has lawful access to the mother" (Oedipal trajectory/Oedipal complex, 2004). As the boy develops he begins to realize ...

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Iin four pages this combination research paper and essay discusses the critical thematic interpretation of this famous short story...